Review Summary

Inside “Late Bloomers,” a tonally wobbly romantic comedy about the indignities of aging, is a somber marital drama struggling to get out. Much of the lurking gravity is etched on the attractive faces of its two stars, William Hurt, 62, and Isabella Rossellini, 59, who play Adam and Mary, a couple married 30 years experiencing the pangs of late middle age. As more characters, including the couple’s three children enter the picture, “Late Bloomers” loses its narrative thread and becomes so choppy that you have the sense that it was butchered during the editing process. What remains is the skeleton of a story that leads to an abrupt, icky-cute ending. -- Stephen Holden